Business
AI and Impact on Employment in Southeast Asia
A World Economic Forum (WEF) projection in its Future of Jobs report in January 2025 stated that eleven million jobs will be created due...
Sinopec and Sri Lanka: Strategic Investment or a New Face of Dependency?
Authors: Akshita Malik and Dr. Karamala Areesh Kumar*
Sri Lanka’s economic downfall in 2022, marked by its first-ever sovereign debt default, cast a harsh spotlight...
Rekindling the G7: Powering With, Not Over, a Changing World
The Group of Seven (G7), once the undisputed steward of the global economic order, finds itself navigating an unfamiliar terrain. Designed during an era...
When Local Innovation Leads: M-Pesa as a Case Against One-Size-Fits-All Solutions
Abstract: Amidst the challenges of digital transformation in developing countries, M-Pesa emerges as a local innovation that successfully empowers communities through mobile phone-based financial...
G7’s Last Stand: Job-Creators Over Job-Seekers Decide Future of Economies
As Canada hosts the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, from June 15 to 17, 2025, an orchestra of economic collapse plays across free economies...
How Public Finance Will Adapt to the Rise of Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
In the past two decades, we have witnessed the digitization of commerce, communication, and even culture. Now, we are standing at the frontier of...
Cybersecurity Reform in Indonesia: How Far Can Decentralization Go?
The securitization of cyberspace has become an inescapable feature of contemporary governance. In many states, cybersecurity is no longer confined to specialized technical agencies...
Indian Factor in BRICS De-Dollarization Dream
The geopolitical shifts and drive for the reformation of global monetary and financial systems are igniting the debate about de-dollarization, which calls for an...
U.S.-Africa Business Dialogue: Pathways to Partnership and Prosperity
Despite the contradictions and complexities in U.S. policy towards Africa, particularly under President Donald Trump, there are still remarkable rising trade and economic cooperation...
Online Drivers’ Demands and the Reality of Indonesia’s Digital Economy
In its first breaths, the appeal of signing up as an online driver under applications such as GO-JEK or Grab is that it is...